He’s dehumanizing the many over the acts of a few. He’s just trying to make it easier to justify the ramping up of their genocide.
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THIS! When those in power start dehumanizing others, you know there's killing coming. Hotel Rwanda is a great history lesson on this.
It feels like a great time for everyone to take a massive chill pill.
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Israel: we literally don't think people in Gaza are human
Westerners: I can't tell the difference between the two sides!
"Hah! Nice argument~ but you failed to consider that
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And the western leader support this war crime instead of stopping it.
Strange, terrorist organization don't seem to pop up in countries with better human rights.
It's a meaningless label. Who decided they were terrorists? You?
If killing civilians is the requirement to be terrorists, every single military on Earth is a terrorist organization. That's what war IS.
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They can pop up anywhere. Terrorism occurs when extremists of any type had enough of whatever they are upset about and it pushes them over the edge. Whether it is reasonable or not. Regular people can also be pushed to do terrible things with just the right amount of propaganda and other emotional manipulation. Some people just enjoy it.
Believing it cannot happen to you too with enough pressure and lies is wrong.
You have a good point I was a bit too black and white with my comment. There definitely seems to be a correlation between size and violence of terrorist groups, and the human rights of the area they riside in.
Also totally agree that it can happen to me. Gotta acknowledge that you don't really know anything and you are pretty much always just taking someone's word for things. I believe the Earth is round, but I'm just taking people's word for it.
Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people. Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli government support the genocide of the Palestinian people. Everyone else are just planning to profit from this.
Every group that fights an occupying force gets labeled a terrorist organization.
When Argentina occupied the Falkland Islands, the UK military who fought them weren't described as a terrorist organisation. Not by anyone with an ounce of sense at least, and certainly not by the islanders who's land and homes had been occupied.
Every indigenous group that fights an occupying force gets labeled a terrorist organization.
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Hmm, I wonder what the difference might be...
How is the UK not the occupying force there? The Falkland Islands are nowhere fucking near us.
The people fighting against a genocidal state are 'bad people'? 'Terrorists', even?
What exactly is wrong about fighting back against one's own genocide? Should they be peacefully protesting it instead?
Oh stop it! There's a literal genocide going on and you feel the need to start handing out these "both sides bad!" "Reminders".
Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people.
Shut the fuck up. Every Israeli "civilian" is complicit in the torture of Palestinians, except for children. Not to mention they're all potential combatants anyway.
The rebels in star wars are terrorists because they killed civilians living in the death star. They're just as bad as the empire.
There is literally no difference between oppressor and oppressed, you imbecile you, absolute moron.
Israel: we literally don't consider the people of Gaza to be humans
You: sheesh, I really I can't tell the difference between these two!
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Every single liberation group was considered a terrorist organization. Fuck, even Antifa gets called that and they're not even an organization.
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Aren't the governments made of and supported by civilians?
Reminder that both siders are the biggest status quo supporters of existing horrors. In your case, it happens to be support for Israeli colonisation and genocide since over 80 years. Calling Palestine defenders terrorists means you actively want Israel and USA to win.
There are non-combatants in this conflict that are bad people. They cheer on the extermination of others. Sometimes that's Hamas or the PLO (they run a fund that gives stipends to families of terrorists). Other times it's certain Israeli Jews who encourage conflict while not risking their own necks because they can claim a religious exemption from military service. They seek an Israel without Palestinian territories, or for that matter Palestinians at all (aka ethnic cleansing).
I'm not saying that non-combatants should be targeted. At the same time, I am saying that just being a civilian does not mean someone lacks blame.
In the Western country that I'm in the propaganda has been flying thick and fast all day today on every single media outlet there is about this. You can tell they're trying to justify a lot of bad things that are about to happen and have already begun.
This shitbag is a right wing fascist who would make Hitler blush with pride.
And you're a fuckface for dehumanizing people.
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